Vancouver
Squeezebox Circle

The Vancouver Squeezebox Circle
meets
on the first Thursday of every month at Spartacus
Books. The next session will be
on August 6thfrom 8 to
10 pm at
the new address - 3378 Findlay(just
off Commercial Drive at 18th)

It's "an
informal gathering of accordions and
their
players from around
the Vancouver region. Some play, some watch, some bring
snacks. No
experience necessary, punk-rockers and polkas welcome.

Set up
a
lesson, learn a lick, share a song, plan the squeezebox revolution (it
is at Spartacus Books after all.)" Check out the link for homework:
tunes
we played at past sessions or hope to play at upcoming ones.

Accordeonaccordion simulator with versions for
iPhone, Ipad, or iPod Touch - search iTunes App Store for other
accordion-learning apps for piano accordion, chromatic button
accordion, and button box - such as the Piano Accordion Pro
for iPad - watch this YouTube clip to see it in action!

Accordion Trainer: learn the left-hand buttons
with this (Windows-only) computer game

Accordion WikiBook
- an introduction to the piano accordion: history, how it works, and an
instructional guide to beginning to intermediate-level playing

Accordions
Worldwide: Weekly accordion news
from around the world about accordions and other related bellows driven
instruments.

Accordionist.org:
The Online Accordionist Community is a great place to meet other
accordionists, accordion teachers, and repairers. Share practice
techniques and repair tips; news of concerts, recordings and
competitions; music files and sheet music for accordion.

The New York Times reports on the
accordion-making centre of the world: Castelfidardo

Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion
in America- by Marion
Jacobson. Newly published book considers the accordion's contradictory
status as both an "outsider" instrument and as a major force in popular
music in the twentieth century.